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University community set to take part in state tornado drill
UGA will participate in a campus-wide tornado drill on Feb. 4 as part of the state of Georgia’s Severe Weather Awareness Week.
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University, CDC form partnership to study human health threats
UGA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a collaboration focusing on understanding and controlling threats to human health.
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Record Achievement
Art Rosenbaum, a professor emeritus of art in UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art is among the nominees for a 2009 Grammy Award.
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Tough year for admissions
The Charlotte Observer, in an article about hardships facing many states’ flagship universities, quoted Nancy McDuff, associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management at…
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Going nuts for fuel
Environmental Research Web, an online journal of eco-friendly news, published an article on the research of K.C. Das, associate professor and coordinator of the Biorefining…
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Wine and dine
An article in Wine Spectator about research showing that extracts from grape seeds can kill both leukemia cells and fat cells in a controlled laboratory…
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Peanut puzzle
The Wall Street Journal quoted Michael Doyle, director of UGA’s Center for Food Safety, in an article about an outbreak of salmonella traced back to…
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Beyond the sea
A Nova Scotia Chronicle-Herald story about cancer-causing toxins leaking from unexploded munitions at the bottom of the sea quoted James Porter, associate dean and Josiah…
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Revolving-door editors
A New York Times article about the layoffs of several editors and publishers of major American newspapers throughout 2008 quoted Conrad Fink, professor of newspaper…
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Research award applications
Students may apply for the UGA Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Awards, which this year offer seven cash prizes totaling $2,000 to students who demonstrate distinction in…
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Cholesterol screening
As part of Heart Health Month, the University Health Center will offer faculty and staff a fasting lipid profile Feb. 16–20 and 23–27 from 8–10…
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Music professor becomes editor of only magazine for piano teachers in the U.S.
Peter Jutras, an assistant professor in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, has been named editor-in-chief of Clavier Companion, the only independent magazine serving piano…
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Giving made easy
UGA’s Georgia Fund Web site allows university alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends to show their kindness to the institution through the act of giving…
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Professor offers five steps to expert’s edge
5 Steps to Expert: How to Go from Business Novice to Elite Performer Paul G. Schempp Davies-Black Publishing $22.95 Bringing to life seminal research that…
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Guardians of fairness
The Equal Opportunity Office’s mission is to ensure the university’s compliance with a complex web of federal and state laws and UGA policies created to…
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Retirees January 2010
Twenty-nine UGA employees retired Jan. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Gail H. Allen, associate accountant, accounts payable, 29 years/9…
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‘Answer man’ earns top honors in Division of External Affairs
Marcus Jennings describes his job as a little bit of everything.
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Graduate student wins national award
A doctoral student in plant biology has been named one of 10 national recipients of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards. Cara Gormally was…
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‘Georgia Review’ among best of Atlanta
Atlanta Magazine has named The Georgia Review to its inaugural class of the Best of Atlanta Hall of Fame. In announcing the honor in its…
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College of Environment and Design receives top rankings in 2009
The College of Environment and Design’s landscape architecture programs again received top national rankings. The bachelor’s program was ranked first in the nation, and the…
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Penn State prof to speak on marriage
Paul R. Amato, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Penn State University, will present findings from his book, Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing,…
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Quiet persuasion’
Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a…
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UGA Invisible Children chapter wins regional competition
Invisible Children United at the University of Georgia was named the top-fundraising chapter from the Gulf-Coast region in the “Schools for Schools” competition by raising…
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UGA team to help in construction of historicall accurat village at Cherokee Heritage Center
Visitors to the Ancient Village at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Okla., have for more than 40 years been treated to life as it…